Transmission-carrier.



D. B. OCONNELL.

TRANSMISSION CARRIER.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 30, 1913.

1 1 22,024. Patented Dec. 22, 1914.

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DANIEL BRADLEY OCONNELL, or VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA, cam-inn,

TRANSMISS ION CARRIEB.

Specification of Letters Patent. Patented Dem 1914;

Application filed June 30, 1913. Serial No. 776,597.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, DANIEL BRADLEY OCONNELL, a citizen of the United States, residing at the city of Vancouver, in the Province of British Columbia, Canada, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Transmission-Carriers, of which the following is a specification.

My inventionv relates to improvements in 19 transmission carriers, to be used in the transmission by rope of logs and other like materials, and the object of my invention is to devise a carrier which is adapted to effectually clear the cross guy ropes in the course of its travel from one point toan;-

other, thus enabling the main transmission rope to be led between terminals any distance apart, which is not at present possible with the carriers in use at the present time.

I attain this object by the construction illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a side elevation of my carrier,

in position on a rope. Fig. 2 is a cross section on the line X-X in Fig. 1.

Similar letters refer to similar parts throughout the several views.

A is the rope sheave of my carrier.

A is the groove for the rope.

A and A are rotatable disks, fitted one on each side of the rope sheave, and free to revolve independently of the same. These disks have a number of teeth A and A formed integrally with them, extending radially from, and equally spaced around, their circumferential edges. The pitch of the teeth is such that the space between them is sufficient to freely receive the cross.

guy rope.

A and A are outstanding ledges formed on the outer faces of the teeth A and A toward the points thereof.

A and A? are rounded portions raised on the inner faces of the ledges A and A, as shown in section in Fig. 2, to act as keys for the carrier block to prevent any possibility of the same spreading.

A and A are side plates forming the frame for the carrier sheave and disks.

A and A are washers fitted as distance pieces between the disks A and A and the side plates to keep the side plates far enough apart to allow of the disks passing freely between them.

A and A are eyebolts fastened to the frame 'at each end to which cables are attached for forth.

A is v the bolt on which the rope/sheave and disks run.

B is the carrier block, having inwardly .1 progecting lugs B 2 adapted to engage pulling the carrier back. and

slidably on the ledges AP-AK These lugsv 1-13 are; designed so that they will'alwaysl have a bearing on the, ledges of two'of the g 5 teeth A*-- 5, as sho'wnin Fig. 1. at

13 -13 are grooves formed in the lugs,

B B- to engage the raised as shown in Fig. 2.

B is the carrier block roller.

C is the main transmission rope.

D is the cross guy rope.

In transmission of logs and other like ma terials at the present time,the length of the, span of the main transmission rope is limited on account of the sag of the rope due to portions h -A f its being unsupported between the terminal points. This sag becomes excessive if the span is made too long, and as the present type of carrier requires a clear rope for the whole distance, it is impossible to use cross guy ropes, and consequently the length of clear span is limited by the amount of sag allowable in the rope. This disadvantage is entirely overcome by the use of my carrier, which allows of the main transmission rope being supported by cross guy ropes, and thus the span can be made any length, as will be seen from the description of the op eration of my carrier, which is as follows When the carrier is moved back or forth along the rope the sheave A alone rotates, the disks A and A and the carrier block B remaining stationary. When, however, the carrier approaches a cross guy rope, the points of one pair of teeth A and A will strike the cross guy rope and be engaged by it, so that, as the carrier moves along, the pressure of the rope on the teeth will turn the disks, and the cross guy rope will come into the relative position as shown in Fig. 1, thus allowing the carrier to pass it. The carrier block B remains vertical always and passes clear underneath the rope, the rotation of the disks causing another set of teeth to take the place of those displaced, and as one tooth is displaced another takes its place, so that it will be seen that the carrier block will always be vertically suspended on two of the ledges A and A This action is the same each cross guy rope rotated every time they strilze the rope, and thus allowing the rope to pass between the bottoi-n of the teeth A and A? and the top of the lugs B and B as shown in Fig. 1. The surfaces of the ledges and of the lugs, Where they bear, are free to slide one on the other, thus' permitting eas rotation of the disks. slightly larger than the raised portions A and A to permit of easy Workin at the same time providing for the e'flicieiit holding of the carrier block to the disks and lill'liS preventing and possibility of the block spreading and becoming detached from the tethzof thedisksa- It will be seen, therefore, that I- have devised a 'tra-nsniissi0h earrier for thetra'nsrnission by rope of logs and other like materials, which will, in the course ofits travelgeffec-tually clearthe cross guy ropes supporting the main rope; thus making it possible to use any length of span the disks being The grooves B and B are made and to use cross" guy ropes for sfippdrting me,

What I claim as my invention is. I r

In a transmission meter, the eonihin'ation With the frame thereof and the rope sheave rotatably inounted in the frame, of tooth disks mounted in the frame concentric with the sheave and having externally faciiigout- \vardly extending shoulders arranged annularly ribs extending from the shoulders and formed in annularsections; and a earfiieilo'l'oek provided With lugs extending in- War dly' over the external shoulders and pro- Goptes at this patient may be obtained for flveflcents each, by downswing the Gommfztioner of atea'ts,

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